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Originally Posted by Bearcat
I don't know about that. I bought every add on that came out that had new content. The third party campaign things I could take or leave.. but the new content was a must. I am sure that like many of us who had FB+AEP+PF already buying Pe-2 was a no brainer. I know many folks myself included who would have been willing to pay for every single thing we got in the mods as seprate add ons had they been released by 1C. It was for me. Did the fact that so many people pirated PF & Pe-2 play a factor in 1C deciding that it would not be worth the time and work & expense of developing more add ons with with SoW in the oven?
SoW is hardly vaporware. I wonder if those who maintain this erroneaous line of thought will be man enough to admit they are wrong when the sim is finally released...
That's not why the modders took over at all. If they could have they would have modded this sim earlier. Count on it. This was not something that started after support for FB stopped. This has been going on for years, it just became acessable to a larger group of folks @ 2 years or so ago. When the 4.09 patch came out the sim was modded... so that line iof thought is wrong.
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Sorry, but when dates slip by years.. until it appears on store shelves, it's much hallyboo'd vaporware. Nothing more nothing less. If it comes out, great.. i'm not holding my breath though, and i certainly won't be first in line.
If they coulda, they woulda.. yes i know. But, by circumstance and timing, this is essentially where the mods took over where the developers left off.. they did a fine job on what they did do, but the legit mod community came about essentially on the premise that what exists can be improved, and what doesn't, can be made to exist .. in time. Obviously more time and/or resources than 1C:Maddox had..
It's a chicken vs the egg argument.. what cheats/'mods' existed before patch 4.09 came about were not released to the wild.. when patch 4.09 came out, it was fortuitious that the mod community picked up the slack, knowing that no further mods were expected (yeah, we all know about the 4.09 final, whenever THAT may come out..)
It's funny.. people seem to revel in demonizing the 'hack' of IL2.. i am only surprised that it had stayed un-hacked as long as it did - a hack didn't go 'wild' until the commercial viability of IL2 had essentially run it's course - perhaps it even gave the franchise a little extra boost through new people picking up a copy, to play with the mods.